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| 9 | 856 | In this way we distributed the weight of the unused View more quotes about length">length of chain over the wrist chains of the last forty women or so, this constituting no unusual burden to any one of them. |
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| 9 | 853 | My fellow guardsman lifted the far end of the chain and threaded it through the arms of the blonde. |
| 9 | 854 | I then drew it forward and put it through the arms of the next woman. |
| 9 | 855 | Then, in time, with the help of three or four other fellows, locating themselves along the coffle line, most of the weight being shortly borne by the wrist chains of the lovely "beads" themselves, we had doubled the chain, bringing it forward. |
| 9 | 856 | In this way we distributed the weight of the unused length of chain over the wrist chains of the last forty women or so, this constituting no unusual burden to any one of them. |
| 9 | 857 | We did not wish to cut the chain. |
| 9 | 858 | Moreover it would be needed the next day. |
| 9 | 859 | Coffle chains are usually adjusted, of course, to the number of women to be placed on it. |